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I'm happy working full time, 40 or so hours a week. What I would really like is more leave, even the option to take more unpaid leave. I get 20 days leave a ye
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
I'm happy working full time, 40 or so hours a week.
What I would really like is more leave, even the option to take more unpaid leave. I get 20 days leave a year, plus 10 days of public holidays. I wish I could just have 30 days of leave, plus the option to take more unpaid days off if I wanted to. I'm amazed that the standard for the USA is closer to 10 days, with no legal minimum. I'd go stark raving mad with only 10 days of annual leave.
Flexi time would be nice, the ability to work longer weeks in exchange for that extra time being converted into annual leave. Work an extra 5 hours a week for 6 months and that's an extra 16 days of annual leave.
- ben_w 8y agoHave you considered Europe? Legal minimum in the EU is 28 including public holidays, but only my first job and my university industrial experience year were that low, and even then they added an extra day to your annual allowance for every year you worked there. Most are 24-26, and I’ve seen one place in Cambridge that offered 25 +/- 5 as standard flexibility, buying unused holiday or selling more holiday as you needed it.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoI have considered it, yes. I'm thinking of moving next year, having an EU passport certainly makes it easy. What I really want, which is not what most companies want, is to be able to pick up a 6-8 month contract, then spend 3-6 months traveling and doing my own thing, and then picking up another contract. Unfortunately, I'm short a few years of experiences to do that.
- itamarst 8y agoAs with a shorter workweek, it's possible to negotiate that, with basically same techniques.